Mark Thompson, the former BBC director general, has been the rumored replacement for ousted New York Times Company CEO Janet Robinson since June, and on Tuesday afternoon it was made official.
Somewhere in the middle of a New York Times story about the Times Company's $88.1 million quarterly loss, a company source told reporter Amy Chozick that it would name a new CEO as soon as September.
The latest potential candidate is departing BBC Director-General Mark Thompson, reported by The Guardian to be “considering” the job along with other possibilities for his post-Beeb career.
A new look at what led to the ouster of the New York Times' former CEO Janet Robinson is renewing interest in a possible sale of the Grey Lady, and the soon-to-be-unemployed Mayor Bloomberg is looking like a prime candidate.
Former Times Executive Made $24 Million in 2011, According to Proxy Statement [New York Times, Media Decoder]
After a much-publicized and pretty pricey departure of its chief executive, The New York Times's profit dropped 12 percent last quarters, according to The New York Times.
A company organizational chart revealed to a New York Times employee that the people who once reported to ex-CEO Janet Robinson now report directly to Michael Golden, Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s cousin who's rumored to be up for Robinson's job, according to Jim Romenesko.
The New York Times has been called a lot of things in the 160 years of its existence, but unpredictable, rash, and confusing are rarely among them. But those were all adjectives swimming around Twitter after it was announced that chief executive Janet Robinson had been asked to resign.
Janet Robinson announced that she was stepping down "with mixed emotions" in a staff memo on Thursday evening; the company's chairman Arthur O. Sulzberger will take over as interim CEO.
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